HUNTINGTON, W.Va. While flood clean up can take months, reconstruction and prevention can take decades. More than 27 years after the floods that became the benchmark for every southern West Virginia inundation since, the federal government is still working to put things back together.

Tornadoes damaged farm buildings and crops as violent thunderstorms battered southeastern Minnesota and northern Iowa. At least six tornadoes touched down near the south-central Kansas town of Mulvane on Saturday evening.

As flood-ravaged West Virginia began cleanup efforts, another series of storms packing winds of up to 70 mph moved through the state, killing a trucker and knocking out power to more than 100,000 customers.

Bert Russell Gibson, 21, has been charged with impersonating an officer after allegedly using the name of a State Police trooper to talk to several women from Virginia in an online chat room starting last fall. During the Internet chats, Gibson made some threats and one of the women contacted the State Police's Internal Affairs division last month to report him, police said.